“First, Do No Pharma”Peggy Munson, ME/CFS patient/activist, counters Mike Adams and other proponents of alternative medicine that have written off XMRV as Big Pharma conspiracy.

The next HIV? ME/CFS and AIDS activists uniteby Peggy Munson | Hi Friends & fellow revolutionaries, As some of you may know, the biggest news to hit the ME/CFS community -- ever -- just dropped a couple of days ago on October 9, 2009.

Peggy Munson: ME/CFS and the Retroviral ElephantIn the ME/CFS community, since yesterday, there has been a swell of jubilation. This may seem odd to a lot of people considering that researchers just found something in our blood similar to HIV.

Short List of Common Pesticides1. Lindane | When someone found white dwarfs behind my ears | I was deloused with mustard gas | I had a daily headache that was like a single eye

Nerve Gas in the Living RoomImagine if a company offered to sell you nerve gas to spray in your living room, or if leftover Agent Orange, watered down, was slathered on the grounds where your children go to school.

The Cells of My IdentityIn a setup that was far too Oedipal, I was sleeping in a small room with my mother while visiting my sister in D.C., when I finally blurted out the news that I had a girlfriend, that I was bisexual and maybe gay.

The Invisible PanelistLong before I became disabled at age 23, I had encounters with the unseen. Being queer gave me an innate sense of when to come out, how to hide, and how to recognize evangelistic rage.

Self: Ornithology: The Immune SystemEverywhere I go now there are crows, following | me like innuendo, their feathers fanning out ominous | as police fingerprints. | With evolutionary anthropology, | they are condemning me.

Who Is That Bubble Girl?I have to live a life immaculately free of chemicals: a bubble life. And by chemicals, I mean, the crap that has infiltrated almost every known product since WWII.

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